Team Profile
INVESTIGATOR (in training).
OCCUPATION: Branch Administrator.
I first became interested in ‘Ghosts’ around the age of 12 after I purchased my first book called ‘Haunted House’s by Shire Publications at a pricey sum of 60p (showing my age now) after being dragged round the North of England Open Air Museum by my parents, I got bored and asked if I could have some pocket money to buy something from the Souvenir shop. To think back then, that buying this book would give me a hobby in later in life, I recently unearthed this book from the loft and looking through it, found map references pencilled in as to their locations throughout the UK, as if one day I might get to visit them. Well I haven’t as yet.
My interest’s grew about the paranormal as I got older and I have had various messages from the other side over the years and more recently by Derek Ackorah himself, I went to see him about three years ago at a local Theatre, I wasn’t expecting a message or anything as the Theatre was packed to the rafters, but at the very end, my father in law came through for me and before I knew it, a camera was in my face and a microphone placed in my hand, OMG! I was gobsmacked; Derek called out to the audience, my father in law’s surname, and asked the audience if this person related to anyone, out of a packed theatre of 1000 people, only I put up my hand. Anyway, moving on.
My next experience just blew me away, I was lucky enough to attend a recent Most Haunted Live show at Denbigh Asylum, North Wales in October 2008, this was my first ever audience participation for any TV show, and because it was filmed over Halloween, the instructions were if you wanted to, bring along a carved pumpkin of your design and be in with a chance of wining the opportunity of joining Yvette and the team on part of the investigation, well, I though I’m up for that, my son of 20 years, who I must hasten to add, has been told has the potential to be a medium, helped me to produce a fantastic pumpkin, and having looked at some pumpkins prior to filming on the day, thought, erm maybe I do stand a chance here, low and behold I did win and I did get to join Yvette and the team on Day 1 of the investigation, you can view it on YouTube, (if you must!),
I also had the pleasure of attending Most Haunted Live at Liverpool in 2009, I didn’t get chosen to go on the vigils this time (lightening doesn’t strike twice does it?) but the excitement of being in the audience was electric.
After MH I attended a ‘Ghost Hunt’ at a pub in Stoke on Trent, it was here that I had my first encounter with ‘spirit’, not the alcoholic type, I took along some marbles, I’ve seen this done on MH and thought lets see if this actually does work, we split into teams of three and my team went of to the Kitchen area as there has been a lot of activity reported there, the kitchen is a typical pub kitchen all steel, there is a room next to the kitchen and a store room further on, if you stand in the storeroom you can throw your marble all the way through the two rooms and down into the kitchen, I threw my marbles a couple of times and asked for it to be thrown back, nothing happened, I was a little disheartened to say the least, on my third attempt my marble came pinging back to me, as I wasn’t expecting this, I bolted through the two rooms and back to the safety of the pub, the other two people I was with were a married couple and the husband bolted out the doors first, with me hot on his tails leaving his poor wife on her own, when we got our breath back then we re-joined her, we thanked the spirits for their help, after we had calmed down from our over excitement of the whole episode.
This experience just fuelled my desire to find a group locally who could share my quest to find evidence of live after death, Most Haunted I love to bits, but is an entertainment show after all, I wanted to be part of a group who don’t have to worry about viewing statistics to survive. I wanted to be with people who share the same passion as me, to try and prove that when we die our spirit does live on. So my search began, that’s when I stumbled across Spectre Analysis, they are local to me, and seem to match what I am looking for in a group, I met them in November 2008 and haven’t looked backed since, upon my ‘interview’ I was asked what equipment I had, blimey erm, make something up here quick I thought, I just said my digital still camera! Oh and my old pennies, oh and my marbles.
My first investigation with the team was The Mitchell Memorial Theatre see my blog, I am very passionate about the Mitch, and thought what a good place to start. It didn’t cost us the earth to hire the venue, something of which I detest is the high prices that some groups charge to attend these events (yes I too am affected by the credit crunch, and I am constantly searching for more places to investigate for free), ghost hunting shouldn’t be a money making scam, there are lots of places to investigate for free, you just need to get out there and look around you.
I also believe in Angels, I have had my own angel experience, we are all born with a guardian angel to guide us through our sometimes difficult path in life, and if you want to know who your guardian angel is, just ask, in some form or another you WILL get a reply, I did!
Well that’s me all summed up, Happy Ghost Hunting
Sarah
